Improvement in converting reciprocating into rotary motion



E. MEREDITH. y ConvertingReoiprooatng into Rotary Motion.

No. 200,556. Patented Feb. 19, |878.

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'NIT'EID STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN MEREDITH, OF BATAVIA, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CONVERTING RECIPROCATING INTO ROTARY MOTION.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 200,556, dated February 19, 1878; application filed January 16, 187s. f

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN MEREDITH, of Batavia, in the county of Kane, in the State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in a Device for Converting Reciprocating into Rotary Motion; and I hereby declare the following to be a full and clear description of the same.

The nature of the invention will be clearly understood by reference-to the accompanying drawings and the subjoined description.

Figure l represents a side elevation of the machine. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of the machine, showing one of the friction-clutches and the intermediate pinion between the drivin g-wheel and the fly-Wheel shaft. v

The frame A provides the necessary bearings for the rock-shaft B, the drivin g-shaft C, the fly-wheel shaft D, and the counter-sh aft E. A sliding bar, F, has its bearings f attached to one side of the frame A, and this bar may receive a direct reciprocating motion from the piston-rod of an engine, or from the pitman Gr, attached to the crank b of the rock-shaft B, or from any other machinery whatever which will communicate a reciprocating motion.

, ing-shaft (l. Two loose driving-Wheels, CI

and G2, are placed upon the shaft C, the 4said 'shaft having only a rocking motion as the rack f is moved back and forth. Two springpawls, c', are attached to the shaft C, and arranged to act against the projecting annular iianges of the wheels G1 and C2, either by friction or by serrated teeth, so as to move the said wheels iirst by one and then by the other,

'ment is to communicate to the shaft D a continuous rotary motion, while the iiy-Wheel W upon this shaft Will serve to carry it past all the dead-points incident to reversing the barF.

Having described iny invention, I claim- The two wheels (ll and C?, actuated by the shaft C and its spring-paw] c', and the cogged pinions d and c d', combined and arranged as and for the purpose set forth.

EDWIN MEREDITH.

Witnesses:

EMANUEL HoLBRooK, CLINTON E. MEAD. 

